The North Eastern Council (NEC) has initiated a process to establish a dedicated airline for north eastern region because air connectivity within the region is poor, NEC Chairman, who is also the Minister for Developement of North Eastern Region, Manishankar Aiyar, said today.


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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>Aiyar, inaugurated the two-day 56th plenary session of NEC here yesterday, which was attended by all the governors and chief ministers of the region except chief minister of Assam.</P>
</p><p class='TableClas'>He said, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Alliance Air and NEC in December last.<BR></P></p><p class='TableClas'></p></table>


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